Thank you for all the well wishes and vibes everyone
We are not long back from the vet and although Mona is not too well the prognosis is much much better than what I had feared. The vet thinks the lump is not cancer or a papilloma. He thinks that it is an inguinal lymph node lump which has developed in response to a wound she developed recently on her hind leg. She kept catching her paralyzed foot which she drags in hay which being so long became wound around her ankle until it became like a tight snare. And she recently became incontinent so the urine would dribble down the leg onto slightly red sore skin from the snare. We had been using sudocrem but have not been given fuciderm as well to speed up the healing of the wound. Her popliteal node is also a wee bit raised so we have baytril for that.
The vet was concerned that she was suffering from some slight back pain so she is on metacam as well and we have also been given panacur as the vet feels its best to cover all bases just in case the lump is e cuniculi related. Oh and her urine is very calcium dense so we need to add some pineapple juice to her water as well and encourage drinking. So its a large cocktail of meds in addition to her eye drops. I already gave Mona her first doses today. She loved the metacam and panacur, she licked it straight off the syringe but she needed more coaxing with the baytril.
I feel so proud of her. She has all these various ailments which are uncomfortable, inconvenient or painful but she has no malice or bad temper about it. Instead she has the sweetest nature and likes to lick all of us instead. She is so brave. She will be 11 in April and its starting to show with all these health problems but she still a lust for life. Sometimes I feel guilty that she is still alive. She hobbles and is half blind and I do wonder if pts would be kinder rather than let her deteriorate but she does have quality of life and she seems to be happy. I don't think she is ready to go at all but I do wish I could make her life pain free. She has developed all these issues at once so its rather a lot for one frail old bunny to take but she is bearing up so well.
However I need to change her environment as hay is no longer an option (she is on readi grass atm) unless I can find a dispenser which will keep most of the hay off the ground. And I am wondering if puppy pads would be an option too. Mona is not really using her litter tray and she just goes where she can when she can.
If anyone has any advice I'd be extreme grateful.
Jane I hope Morse will be ok and is not suffering from the lumps, poor wee man xx